Beware of These Online Ads

You may have seen the online ads, which are common on Yahoo mail servers. They often picture a young woman sitting at a computer and smiling at the camera. The caption says the woman lives in your city and has discovered a way to earn thousands of dollars a week working from her home computer. […]

A Day at a Trampoline Park with Broken Bones and Head Trauma

Their floors and walls are made of trampolines that allow kids to jump freely while having fun and exercising. They are trampoline parks and for anywhere from $8 to $14 per hour, children can jump in a controlled and safe environment. Or can they? The Chicago Tribune reported that in May a trampoline park in […]

Emergency Responders Rush to Single-Engine Plane Crash in Idaho

They were in a small Wyoming town to help build a church, and they were on their way home to Idaho in a small, single-engine airplane. Emergency responders found all three dead in the small plane after it crashed near the Grace, Idaho airport last Monday. The airplane crash claimed the lives of two adults […]

Dirt Bike and ATV Hit Head-On While on Florida Trails

A father and son from Maryland came to Florida for a fresh start. Unfortunately, it had a devastating ending for the 13-year-old son last week in Lee County. The teen was riding his dirt bike along the North Fort Myers trails and collided head-on with an ATV. Rescue workers rushed the two victims to Lee […]

Did This Worker’s Employer Know It Exposed Him to Asbestos?

If your computer monitor at work exposed you to an often-fatal disease day-after-day and your employer failed to warn you, would you be mad enough to sue? A jury in New York recently awarded $2.5 million to a former chemist at Ford Motor Company who claimed a machine he used at work exposed him to […]

Classmates.com Settles Class Action Suit for Sending Fake E-mails

Classmates.com will have to pay each member about $15.00 in a settlement agreement tentatively approved by a federal judge earlier this month. In a story at mediapost.com, the settlement caps damages at $2.5 million, which means that a member’s payment depends on how many people made a claim in the class action lawsuit. If all […]

66-Year-Old Man is Latest Fatality Linked to Contaminated Alcohol Wipes

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating the recent death of a 66-year-old man in connection with allegedly contaminated Triad brand alcohol wipes. It is the eight death linked to the wipes, which Triad’s parent company recalled earlier this year after discovering the wipes contained the bacteria, Bacillus cereus. The 66-year-old victim contracted […]

Plaintiff Says Defendants Sold Harmful Fake Cocaine Product

A West Virginia man filed suit against three local businesses in Lincoln County for selling and marketing a product called “bath salts,” which the defendants marketed as a “legal drug.” Now, other plaintiffs might join him in his product liability and personal injury lawsuit, according to The West Virginia Record. In his complaint, the plaintiff […]

2-Year-Old Girl Walks Through Open Pool Gate and Drowns

A Collier County homeowner faces possible charges for leaving the gate to his pool open, which resulted in a 2-year-old girl’s drowning death last week. According to a report at naplesnews.com, the 50-year-old man was in his backyard shop at his home in Immokalee. The swimming pool is located in the front of his home. […]

69-Year-Old Man Speaks about Boating Accident that Amputated his Leg

A 69-year-old Florida man who lost his leg in a horrific boating accident in February spoke to local news outlet earlier for this month. It is the man’s first interview since a boat ran over him while he was swimming near Naples’ Vanderbilt Beach this past winter. The man spoke to winknews.com about the catastrophic […]